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In Aphasia and Related Cognitive-Communication Disorders, renowned author Albyn Davis gives graduate students and others pursuing a clinical career in adult language disorders, a comprehensive, up-to-date look at theory and practice in a balanced treatment of impairment-based and communication-based disorders. Written in a relaxed writing style, the book presents topics in an organized, logical progression that first provides an understanding of a disorder, next discusses assessment and diagnosis, and then treatment. Included are explanatory “walk-throughs” to make challenging concepts clear plus coverage of special topics including therapeutic software and other technologies, levels of evidence, neuroplasticity, new medical treatments, quality of life, and primary progressive aphasia.
Albyn Davis received his B.A. from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Ohio University, both in the field of Communication Disorders. After three years as a speech-language pathologist at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Pittsburgh, he taught for nine years at the University of Memphis and 23 years at the University of Massachusetts where he retired as professor emeritus in 2007. Currently he is an adjunct professor at New York University, teaching Language Disorders in Adults. Dr. Davis co-developed the PACE therapy procedure for aphasia. He has investigated clinical interactions and discourse production, and his most recent research delved into psycholinguistic processing by people with aphasia. He has published a series of texts on adult language disorders. He chaired the Clinical Aphasiology Conference and was an associate editor of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research. He is currently on the Board of Directors for the National Aphasia Association and is a consultant for the Adler Aphasia Center.
1 INTRODUCTION TO ACQUIRED LANGUAGE DISORDERS
Diagnosing aphasia
Describing aphasia
Explaining aphasia
Studying aphasia
Treating aphasia
Summary and conclusions
2 NEUROLOGICAL AND MEDICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Neuroanatomy, neurophysiology
Ischemic stroke
Hemorrhage
Tumor
Focal cortical atrophy
Clinical neurological examination
Clinical brain imaging
Syndromes of aphasia
Exceptional aphasias
3 INVESTIGATING LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS
Word processing
Detecting sentence comprehension deficits
Explaining sentence comprehension deficits
Word finding and retrieval
Sentence production and agrammatism
4 INVESTIGATING COMMUNICATION AND PARTICIPATION
Cognitive pragmatics
Prosody
Nonverbal modalities
Discourse and text
Conversation
Communication partners
Life participation
5 CLINICAL ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS
The first visit
Standardized testing
Administering the formal test
Documenting syndromes: The Boston Exam
Syndromes quantified: The WAB-R
Psychometric constraints: The PICA
United Kingdom: CAT
Revival: Eisenson’s Examining for Aphasia
Bedside screening and brief batteries
Diagnostic decisions
Aphasia in bilingual individuals
6 SUPPLEMENTAL AND FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENTS
Word comprehension
Model-based assessment of reading
Modular impairment: PALPA
Sentence comprehension
Word retrieval
Verbs: Comprehension and production
Speech disorders
Severe aphasia
Functional communication and outcomes
Overall functional outcome
Life satisfaction
Summary in brief
7 RECOVERY AND PROGNOSIS
Stroke
Recovery of language
Approaches to prognosis
Type of stroke
Severity of impairment
Type of impairment
Other factors
Bilingual recovery
The targeted prognosis
Explaining recovery
8 TREATMENT OF LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT
Rehabilitation team and settings
Getting started
Cognitive stimulation
Measurement and generalization
Word-finding and retrieval
Computer-assisted treatment
Efficacy of impairment-based treatment
The brain with treatment
Health care topics
Summary and conclusion
9 SPECIALIZED TREATMENTS FOR IMPAIRMENTS
Studying individual cases
Sentence production
Asyntactic comprehension
Wernicke’s aphasia
Conduction aphasia
Anomic aphasia
Reading impairments
Spelling impairments
Severe or global aphasia
Medical treatments
10 FUNCTIONAL REHABILITATION AND PARTICIPATION
The clinical-functional gap
Functional stimulation
Adaptive language strategies
AAC: Alternative and augmentative communication
Interactive therapies
Psychosocial adjustment
11 RIGHT HEMISPHERE DISORDERS
Clinical neuropsychology
Primary cognitive impairments
Secondary impairments
Cognitive pragmatics of RHD
Discourse
Clinical assessment
Treatment
Recovery and outcomes
12 TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY
Head trauma
Neuropsychological assessment
Personality and behavior
Insight
Language
Cognitive-communicative assessments
Cognitive rehabilitation
13 DEMENTIAS AND PROGRESSIVE APHASIAS
Diagnosis and assessment of dementia
Alzheimer’s disease
Other causes of dementia
Dementia of Alzheimer’s type (DAT)
Language with DAT
Communicative and cognitive rehabilitation
Primary progressive aphasia
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